Tim is an accomplished saxophonist who has performed extensively across the UK, Europe, and the USA. His notable career includes touring with Ian Carr’s Nucleus and Graham Collier Music in the 1970s (when he won the Young Jazz Musicians of the Year Award with his band South of the Border) and performing with the innovative big band Loose Tubes in the 1980s. Throughout the decades, Tim has released several acclaimed albums including “English People,” “Decision,” “Authentic,” “Silence Between Waves,” and the highly praised “Personal Standards” and “Colour Beginnings.” He’s collaborated with numerous musicians including Giovanni Mirabassi, Phil DeGreg, and composer Colin Riley, with whom he founded the Homemade Orchestra. Tim has been recognized with multiple awards and was the first ever musician Artist in Residence at Tate Britain, where he composed music in response to JMW Turner’s works. Beyond performing, he co-founded and chaired several jazz organizations including Jazz Umbrella and WayOutWest.

(The summary above is paraphrased from Tim’s professional biography on his website: http://www.timwhitehead.co.uk/)

Those of us who have caught him live … have been left in blinking disbelief.  It’s not just his mastery of the tenor saxophone, phenomenal though it is, but the absolute conviction of his playing that is so impressive.

     Dave Gelly (The Observer/ BBC )